Management Perception toward Total Quality Management and The Impact of it’s Implementation on Organizational Performance: Survey throghout SME’s in Yogyakarta Region, Indonesia

Sunarni, Ch. Wiwik and Purwanugraha, Heribertus Andre (2012) Management Perception toward Total Quality Management and The Impact of it’s Implementation on Organizational Performance: Survey throghout SME’s in Yogyakarta Region, Indonesia. In: The 7'th International Conference on Business and Management Research, 15 November 2012, Ho Chi Minh.

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Abstract

In the competitive, global and turbulent business environment, quality is the only key to survive. Quality is a critical sucess factor for achieving competitive advantage in today’s market. Total Quality Management (TQM) is a concept to respond to the situation. The purposes of this study are to determine the manager’s perception of Small Medium Enterprises (SME’s) on TQM and to measure their effect of its implementation on organizational performance. By using questionaire, data were collected from 96 SME’s throughout Yogyakarta Special Region Province, Indonesia. The samples were selected by convinience random sampling. All selected companies have implemented Total Quality Management, although vary in the length of implementation, but all surveyed SME’s have implemented TQM more than 1 year. The research revealed that Total Quality Management was perceived as Product Quaity Improvement Program (46.15%), and Product Cost Reduction Program (22.49%). Managers of the surveyed companies got information on TQM from the succesfull TQM Companies (58.33%). IT proved that lesson learned from others companies was an important factor to motivate others in implementing a certain program. The research also indicated that SME’s managers were fully aware that TQM was a method for improving quality of product and had become the critical factor in improving organizational performance. The reasons of impelementing TQM were more influence by external factors rather than internal. According to the research, there two main reasons of implementing TQM in SME’s, the first was to satisfied customers and the second was to increase the SME’s competitiveness in a global market. The last finding was related to organizational performance. The study result indicated that TQM gives some positive impacts on SME’s performances. The major impact of implementing TQM on organizational performance were (1) reducing the number of defective products (79.17%), (2)Decreasing the number of customer’s complaints (73.96%), (3) improving the efficiency of production procesess (69.79%), and (4)Reducing the sales returns (67,71%). Although there were several good impacts of TQM implementation, but the impact themselves have not yet improve the organizational performance significantly.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords: otal Quality Management, Quality, Organizatioal Performance, SME’s,
Subjects: Akuntansi > Akuntansi Manejemen
Divisions: Fakultas Ekonomi > Akuntansi
Depositing User: Editor UAJY
Date Deposited: 06 Nov 2015 09:01
Last Modified: 09 May 2019 02:50
URI: http://e-journal.uajy.ac.id/id/eprint/8292

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